Which AI models are actually best at legal work? A new platform launched in beta by the alternative legal services provider Percipient aims to answer that question by letting legal professionals put the models to the test themselves, in blind, head-to-head comparisons, and all at no cost.
The platform, Certera.AI, lets a user submit a legal prompt and receive…
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The Tenth Circuit’s July 6, 2026 opinion in 25-2052 is a useful reminder that appellate outcomes often turn as much on standards of review and issue preservation as on the underlying merits. Although the docket entry is captioned simply as “Opinion,” the decision appears to focus on how the court evaluates the district court’s ruling, what arguments were properly preserved,…
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R&D & AI INNOVATION

How the Agentic PDLC Accelerated Delivery and Drove AI Adoption
R&D performance, Q1 FY2025 through Q2 FY2026
By Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer, Litera

Eighteen months ago, I walked out of an Hg conference in Silicon Valley knowing that how we built software was about to change completely. We had just seen a demo of…
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If you (or your client) thinks what is said to a chatbot is private, think again. Under the Stored Communications Act, the government can get a search warrant and force the AI provider to produce your AI conversations. And there is not a damn thing you can do about it. Whatever you say to AI can and will be used…
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“Should we be looking at Harvey? Legora? Maybe Claude? Should we buy or build? Could we run something open source, and what’s the overhead if we did?” And almost every time, in some form or other: […]
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I have been blogging for awhile, decades at this point. This blog has the word “exploration” in its title but, really, it may be more about experimenting. One thing about experiments is that you may not see them bear fruit for a long time, if ever. Or you may get results you don’t anticipate. That was…
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The former chief financial officer of The Epoch Times Association, Inc., Weidong Guan, has pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York to participating in a conspiracy involving at least $67 million in illicit funds. The case is notable not only for the size of the alleged laundering operation, but also because it involves a senior finance executive at…
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The Tenth Circuit’s July 7, 2026 decision in Opinion, No. 25-8071, is a useful reminder that appellate outcomes often turn as much on procedure as on the merits. Although the precise factual posture is case-specific, the opinion centers on a recurring issue for federal practitioners: whether the order under review was properly appealable and, if so, what standard governs…
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The Supreme Court has handed down a major administrative-law ruling, siding with President Donald Trump in a dispute over the firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter and sharply expanding presidential removal authority over independent agencies. In doing so, the Court overruled Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, the 1935 precedent that had long been understood to shield FTC commissioners from…
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Zoom Communications, Inc. has launched a new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, filing IPR2026-00411 on July 10, 2026. For patent litigators and in-house IP counsel, this is the kind of early-stage PTAB matter worth adding to a watchlist, especially because the petition may signal broader invalidity and defense strategy in parallel district court or…
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Monsanto Company has filed a reply in support of its motion to dismiss an appeal in the Eighth Circuit, sharpening what appears to be a threshold procedural dispute before the court ever reaches the merits. The filing, docketed in No. 26-2217 on July 8, 2026, is the latest step in a familiar but consequential appellate battle: whether the appellant has…
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Saturday’s legal news cycle reflects a familiar but important reality for lawyers and compliance teams: risk is coming from every direction at once. The most significant developments circulating today span court rulings, new and ongoing enforcement actions, major civil settlements, legislative activity affecting the legal industry, and headline criminal matters. Taken together, they offer a useful snapshot of where litigation…
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The Department of Justice has announced a $600 million settlement with Alibaba Group and AUS Merchant Services to resolve allegations that the companies failed to prevent the sale of illegal pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical equipment, and other unlawful products on their platforms. The resolution, involving the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island, is notable not only for its size…
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The Justice Department’s proposed antitrust settlement with Willow Bridge, announced July 6, 2026, is the latest indication that federal enforcers remain focused on alleged coordination in multifamily housing markets — particularly where information sharing and pricing technology intersect. Willow Bridge is one of the country’s largest landlords, and the matter stands out not only because of the company’s size, but…
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A federal judge in Nashville has dismissed the Justice Department’s criminal case against Kilmar Ábrego García, concluding that the prosecution was vindictive and retaliatory. The ruling stands out because it does more than reject a charging decision on ordinary sufficiency grounds: it ties the government’s criminal case to Ábrego García’s success in challenging his earlier removal to El Salvador.

That…
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